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Beauty­blender

Hand-drawn holiday art for the Holiday 2025 collection.

Beauty­blender2025
Beautyblender Holiday 2025 hand-drawn pattern in full color
The briefBeauty­blender

Bring joy, playfulness and energy to holiday gifts that pop on shelf and feel irresistibly collectible.

Packaging→ Three holiday sets
Lettering→ The words
Process→ Line to color

Commissioned as the artist for Holiday 2025. The concept: The Gifting Museum, a curated collection of gifts that celebrate the art of blending. One rule: PMS 226, the Beautyblender pink, in every illustration.

Beautyblender asked for holiday gifts that pop on shelf, feel irresistibly collectible and bring joy, playfulness and energy, under one concept: The Gifting Museum. Commissioned as the artist for Beautyblender’s Holiday 2025 collection. I drew the sponges, stars, swirls and lettering that cover all three holiday sets, Foam Pop, the Cleantemporary Trio and Bounce Haus, taking them from loose line drawings to the final full-color art on packaging and campaign.

ClientBeauty­blender
CollectionHoliday 2025
ConceptThe Gifting Museum
RoleArtist and illustrator
ChannelsPackaging, campaign
Part IPackaging

The boxes

In which a sponge becomes a pattern.

The brief asked for limited-edition outer packaging that would feel like a collector’s item. Sponges, stars, swirls and script, drawn by hand and carried across all three holiday sets: Foam Pop, the Cleantemporary Trio and Bounce Haus.

From the client brief: a line sketch of a cylindrical pack beside the sponge colors and the colors the illustration had to include, led by PMS 226 pink
The brief: dieline and color
Flat pack art for the Foam Pop, Cleantemporary Trio and Bounce Haus sets, covered in hand-drawn trees, stars and lettering
Three sets, one hand: Foam Pop, Cleantemporary Trio and Bounce Haus
The Foam Pop box hanging by its ribbon inside a pink frame, against magenta stripes
Foam Pop, framed
The hexagonal Bounce Haus box inside a pink frame, against magenta stripes
Bounce Haus, framed
Foam Pop holiday box wrapped in the illustrated pattern
Foam Pop
Bounce Haus holiday box wrapped in the illustrated pattern
Bounce Haus
Foam Pop set on hot pink with ornaments and ribbonBounce Haus set on hot pink with sponges in flight
A woman pressing a pink Beautyblender sponge to her cheek
Holiday 2025, campaign
A woman smiling, hand to her cheek, pink gloss lip
A woman with eyes closed pressing a pink Beautyblender sponge to her cheek
The blend · Concept
Pink, blue and mint Beautyblender sponges lined up on a sunlit windowsill
The originals · Concept
A hand holding a pink sponge, each nail painted with a doodle from the pattern
The nails · Concept
Part IILettering

The words

In which the copy is drawn, not set.

Every word lettered by hand for the collection, then scattered through the pattern and across the packs.

Beauty Blender, hand lettered in brush capitals with an underlineWet. Squeeze. Bounce., hand lettered
Joy, Joy, Joy, hand lettered with starbursts
Lettered by hand
Part IIIProcess

How it was drawn

In which it starts in black line.

Loose line drawings first, then the repeat, then the full-color art on pack and campaign.

Early line sketch of sponges and stars
01 First sketch
The holiday collection among white and gold ornaments
On set
Every element in black line before the repeat: sponges, lettering, eyes, lips, hearts and stars
02 The kit of parts
The holiday pattern as black line drawing
03 The line drawing
The final Holiday 2025 pattern in pink, blue and green
04 Holiday 2025, final pattern
Part IVOut of home

On the street

In which the pattern takes over a building.

The holiday art scaled up past the box: a full wall and a corner shop wrapped in the pattern.

The Beautyblender holiday pattern painted across a full building wall, a woman walking past
The wall · Concept
A corner shop wrapped in the pattern at dusk, a shopper looking in
The corner · Concept
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